On the afternoon of September 27, 2017, the "Dialogue between Sino-French Wuhan Ecological Demonstration City and Fortune Global 500 & Intelligent Retail Investment Cooperation Forum" was held in Wuhan, Hubei Province.

Li Yong, Deputy Director-General of the Investment Promotion Agency of Ministry of Commerce (CIPA) attended and addressed the forum. He noted that the progress in artificial intelligence, image recognition, mobile payment, IOT and other technologies is the key driver for the innovation and transformation of China's retail industry, as well as an effective attempt to advance the supply-side structural reform from the demand side in the field of business circulation.